The feminist writer Angélica Gorodischer described books as “the door to the universe.” Last Saturday, at the age of 93, one of the Latin American pioneers of science fiction passed away in her house in Rosario.

Gorodischer made her readers travel to the vastest empire that never existed, to an archaeological field on what was once Buenos Aires and to other spaces and time dimensions born from her fertile imagination.

Angélica Beatriz del Rosario Arcal de Gorodischer was born in Buenos Aires on July 28, 1928. Her family moved to the city of Rosario, some 300 kilometers west of the Argentine capital, when she turned seven.  At that age she already preferred books to dolls, even when she chose a book that caught her attention from the family library and didn't even understand much of what she read.

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